Improvement in suspension rings



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DANIEL sonnes, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, AspslcavonA L. TOWER, `Or SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

To `LEVI Letters Patent No. 106,738, dated August 23, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT.. iN SUSPENSION RINGS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making p'art of the same To all to whom these presents 'may come Be it known that I, DANIEL M Somnusof Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented an Improved Suspension Ring or dcvce to be attached to calendars, businesscards, Sac.; and I do herebydeclare the same to-be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawing, of which- Figure l denotes a front elevation of my invention, as atiixed to a card;

Figure 2, a top view; and

Figure 3, a side elevation of it as detached.

My invention relates to an improved article or de-4 vice to be attached to calendars, business or other cards, for the purpose of suspending them in ady desired position; and l My said invention consists in making or stamping the device from a single' plate of metal, and subsequently bending or swaging the furcated ends thereof into the requisite shape to form the base or lower part of the loop and the entering and' fastening-arms of the device, the same being as hereinafter described.

In carrying out Iny invent-ion, or making the said device, Istake a sheet or pla-tebf metal, of the required kind andthickness, and, by means of astam-por 'die of the desired shape, out out a blank,to form the device, ofthe shape as shown in Figure 4. Next, in order to Yform the bottom or base of the loop, each of the arms is bent inward at right angles tothe sides of the loop, thus forming diagonal corners. The two arms are next brought together so as to lap upon eachother, and againj bent at right angles to the plane. of the loop, the inner ends of the said armsabutting against each other, thus completing the loop, the outer or free ends being injuxtaposition, forming, as it were, 'a single fui-cated arm, to enter a single hole made for itsreception-in a card.

In figs. 1', 2, and 3, ofthe said dra\ving,

A denotes the body or main part ot' the device; p'

(t a', the hase of the body, or loop; and A b b', the two fastening-arms, the latter being prof videdwith pointed ends.l

In applyingthe said device to a card, a hole is. to be made'through the latter, and the arms b b' to be passed through the card from front to rear, and' the two arms spread or forced apart, and bent over in opposite directions, upon,.and in close connection with the surface of the card.

A device constructed as above described is not only eectivefor the purpose for which it is designed, hut can be produced at a very small cost.

I do not claim a device for fastening .two or more sheets of paper together, as made of a single metallic band, so bent as to constitute a head orv abutment and a furcated shank, as I am aware that such is not new.

forth.

, D. M. SOMERS." Witnesses:

WM. H. BODEN, GEO. BROWN.-

What I claim as my invention is as follows, that is" 

